The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-08-05
BILL NYE,s Blasted PASS.
The War Between the Press and th'
RAILWAYS.


Railways.
HUDSON, Wis, April Al arrived here last
week just a little ahead Of the biting blasts of
the i. C. b. BY the l. C. b. l mean 10 imply
the interstate commission bill
l noticed while Ell route that the new law
had stimulated travel to q wonderful degree
On my way from the south, where was
during the winter, noticed that the sluggish
arteries of trade had already begun TO palpi-
tate, ana crowds Of people filed the cars on
every train
/ said to myself, congress has at last solved
this great question Of financial stringency
and broken the great dam that held capital
captive. On the Piedmont Air line people
crushed each other together in a mad attempt
20 travel. On the Richmond and Danville
and Z. T, II. and G.. as ell as the L. and n,
humanity crowded day coaches and sleepers
ill the walls cracked. At Cincinnati l could
not get a sleeping car at all, and l had to
telegraph twentyiour hours ahead co get one
from Chicago. Everywhere, as FAR as the eve
could reach, there seemed TO be a wild and
restless desire to get some where else. Several
companies have to put on extra coaches to
carry the eager tourists
l arrived here just III time TO witness the
last moments Of q north western pass as its
spirit took its flight Had I postponed my
journey Tor single day / would have been
too late.
It was still young. Life was before it.
Barely quarter of the span Of its life had
been passed when it curled up and expired.
IL was q cute little thing, with an olive com
plexiOn and large, mOurnfUl, upper case eyes.
\ few weeks ago / noticed that it did not
look Well 1t did not complain of illness or
pain, buU / thought detected a condition on
its back, and 50 l hurried home in order to be
mere III case it should expire. As soon as the
conductor looked at it and felt its pulse he
said that he could do nothing for it. The inter
state commerce law is one of those things that
viii have to be tried before we can pass upon
1t, presume, though some claim that it is
going TO be very difficult to pass upon it even
then. The though5 occurred to ME just after
the gate keeper pushed ME back yesterday
and told me to go and get my ticket.
L then first realized what it was to be rudely
ground under the heel Of a cold corporation
that is devoid Of heart, devoid of soul, devoid
of noble thoughts, devoid of refined instincts,
devoid of kind impulses, devoid of milk of
human kindness, devoid Of bowels of compass
sion
From force of habit walked up to the gate
wirh joyous nod and the old password, only
TO be coldly repused BY the hired bouncer of
this heartless, soulless, impulseleSs, milkless
and bowelleSs corporation.
But the railroads will get the worst of it,
for l know that travel on some of the lines
ihas fallen off since April l. can see it
Ialready. L have fallen off myself since the LIST
of the month and others will do the same
That is not all A friend of mine who runs
paper and whose pass got the hollow horn
on Friday last, says thas bis columns are now
open to those who wish to complain of the
management of this road. He states that the
first hot box viii be duly chronicled, and that
he viii no longer close his eyes to the wrongs
we have heretofore suffered at the hands of
this unjust and ruthless vampire that has
been sapping the very foundation Of our in
, stigutions and srnearing its long, dark trail
with the remnants OF our best mich COWS,
reluctantly paying for them the price set at
the tail Of an unjust and eneTvating trial by
a corrupt, venal and dliveling jury.
He says that "the time has come for the
press to arise and assert itself" and when the
train runs off the track and kills a lot of
people who have led exemplary lives, his pa
per will hereafter tell why and how 1t was
done Heretofore he has not had sufficient
help in the Office, he claims, and he fire.
quently ran short Of type, but now he is go
ing 10 give all the particulars Of the first
smash up that occurs on the road If the paper
falls into the relentless nav of sheriff's sale
on the following week.-New York World.